call. let s look at the transcript with trump and the ukraine be president and there s three key take-aways we need to look at. number one, trump stated that the u.s. has been very good to ukraine and ukraine hasn t been good to the u.s. number two, trump asked for a favor. number three, trump asked that the president look and investigation rob: he asked for a favor talking about the origins of the russia probe. he was talking about the dnc hacking, talking about the mueller investigation, not talking about the corruption with joe biden. and by the way, joe biden is not above the law. there is nothing that said anything about any kind of corruption. the transcript doesn t say that, doesn t talk about corruption. if we pull up the graphic of the corruption, you see that do me a favor had nothing to do with joe biden. let s talk about joe biden. joe biden is not above the law, just like no one else in this country is above the law. just because he s running for
foundational question where the president feels that if russia can be said to have tipped the scales in the election, then people will simply see him as an unworthy or illegitimate president. you know, josh, you were not in the room when that happened, but near the room per se. you were certainly close to the fbi director in a contemporaneous fashion as he was getting that reaction from the incoming white house. was this something that alarmed you, alarmed law enforcement at the time? not just law enforcement, but the intelligence community in general. that was the subject of great discussion, great debate after that meeting is do we think that this incoming administration is going to take this issue as seriously as we have. if you put yourselves in the shoes of the intelligence community and go back to the period of the election just before election day, there was this ferocious debate about what to do with the election interference by russia, with the dnc hacking, with the hackin
sophisticated, conscious deliberate persistent comprehensive strategy to undermine our democracy. i m sort of in the process, after working this for the better part of a year, putting the dots together. when you have the dnc hacking, you have the efforts to get into 21 different state elections systems, you ve got the misinformation on facebook, all of these things together come as a really serious threat. and i just don t think we re adequately dealing with it. here s the biggest problem that i see. we don t have any kind of announced doctrine or strategy or policy of responding to this kind of thing. the russians and the chinese, everyone else knows, if they send a missile to new york, they know what will happen as a result. in this case, if they try to take down our democratic system through the internet, or through computer systems or even people
broke saying he has full confidence in his ability to continue performing his duties. separately, white house press secretary sarah sanders pushing back on criticism that president trump has not been tuff n uff on russia for meddling in the u.s. election. parroting this false tweet from the president. he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama was eight years combined. reporter: president obama confronted russian president putin after the dnc hacking, em pelling 35 russian diplomats out of the u.s., closing two russian compounds, and imposing sanctions against nine russian individuals. by comparison, mr. trump has yet to impose sanctions overwhelmingly passed by congress last summer. he has hosted russian diplomats and denies russian meddling. the russia story is a total
breaki breaking news, cnn reporting about the meeting at trump tower. there were multiple e-mails following up on the june 2016 meeting from the british publicist. trump jr. said he did not follow up on the controversial meeting, but now we are learning someone did. rob goldstone, the publicist that arranged the meeting sent a follow up to trump s inner circle. in one e-mail dated june 14, 2016, five days after the trump tower meeting, he forwarded a cnn story on russia s hacking to the client, russian pop star. trump s son-in-law, jared kushner and paul manafort describing the news in the e-mail as rely weird. they said dnc hacking was not